Eddie's official last York weather report.

It's always sunny when trains are involved!

I'm going.. it will rain.. it just happens

Thanks Eddie for the good news!  I think this guy better start looking over his shoulder.  

- Mike

Strange how it changes from day to day. Yesterday it was going to be sunny all week. Today it showers all week.

It will change again by next week.

Jim D.

It's indoors, who cares if it rains! Although I will admit the OGR gathering in the grandstand will work better if there's no rain!

Trust me Its a long walk between buildings in the rain, especially when carrying a box that you would like to keep looking nice.

It also gets dark at night, too.....

I'm sick of dry and 90-100 degrees. I'm hoping for cold and some rain. I forgot what that's like.

I'm taking my chances.... 30-40% isn't too bad

Thu Oct 16

66^°

46^°

Showers

Chance of rain:40% Wind: W at 13 mph

 

 

Fri Oct 17

70^°

51^°

AM Showers

Chance of rain: 30% Wind: W at 10 mph

 

Wet or dry, I'm playing golf on Friday afternoon!

 

Gilly 

 

Revised forecast...50-50 chance of rain. Let me see I'll put 25 cents on red and 25 cents on black.

rat

So what if it rains, I've been wet before, and I'll just bring some garbage bags to take the trains to the car in!

Too far out.  I don't think they can accurately predict much more beyond 24 hours...maybe less.  I like what others say...I'm going regardless as it is inside.  

The big leaf/garbage bags make good cheap, temporary ponchos. I will sit here in the dry awaiting the York reports.

I can remember driving home in the mid 1990's ina noreaster on a Saturday . The 3 hour ride took 7.5 hours. It was the worst I've ever encountered. I think 09 had the borderline snow, that was a close second.

Other than a direct hit of a hurricane, I'm not impacted by the weather conditions

rat

Three different weather services, three different forecasts for next week.  I'll wait until I get there and look up.

I think we just found the new favorite pre-York thread topic now that the two-signature rule is history and photography is now allowed in the dealer and layout halls:  the weather!  

David

I could talk about arrows...

rat

Go for it, rat.  The forum just doesn't feel the same a week or two out from York with no complaint threads.  

David

There's always the other semi-annual 'grenades'...

Amigos

Crop Dusters

Personal Hygiene

KD

You know of all the complaining going on for decades, I couldn't care less about the cameras, weather, catalogs, the 2 signature rule, public entry, tips for the attendants, parking, traffic, road repair, suspenders, smell, food, manufacturer displays too big , too small, ceo's not showing up etc.

The only thing that bothered me was the person walking the wrong way down the aisle. Even if there were no arrows on the floor, you don't detect some sort of pattern where 99% of the attendance is moving in the same direction.

I'd like to to see some sort of public shaming of one way violators now that the guards don't have to worry about phones and cameras.

rat

Okay, Rocky,, you're up.

John, it never rains in York. Just like Atlantic City, a lifetime ago. It may be cloudy, a bit overcast, a possibility of a brief shower, but it never rains.

Gerry

Hope the weather changes to Sunny all week.

I forgot gas prices.

rat

According to Gas Buddy $3.14- $3.19 gallon if you shop around.

http://www.yorkgasprices.com/York/index.aspx

Scott Smith

just over the Jersey border it was 2.97 last sunday.

rat

I bough gas at BJ's yesterday.  Sign advertised $3.09 and if you go in the store and buy something they give you $.05 off per gallon.  Much to my surprise the receipt said it was $2.99.

Although nowhere near York, PA, I paid $2.91 at Sam's Club in Florence, AL.  GasBuddy.com is showing $3.15 at the Sam's Club in York.

about those arrows ..I hear you can step on them  and turn them in the opposite direction.   So far I can't get one to point up or down..............and are they suggesting you continue on the same direction or can you turn left or right at the end of an aisle?

  and some of us are going to eat Tuesdays' food on Thursday?  Does that mean we have to skip a dinner the following week?  I was just getting used to eating Fridays' food on Thursday..........no wonder I was so hungry the next day

Thanks Eddie... Looks like I wont be fighting with the family to bring the dog with me this trip...nothing worse than the smell of wet Labradoodle in a small truck camper !

"Hope the weather changes to Sunny all week"

Eddie, I thought you wrote the book on this, "it is always fair and warmer" during York week. 

Not a good week for those of us that are there Monday.

Call me a dizzy-eyed optimistbut I just have a feeling everything is going to go exceptionally well for this whole York experience - from Wed. (for us early-bird set-er-uppers) to Sat. The weather will somehow accommodate safe driving, esp. enjoyable camaraderie, exceptional sales and purchases, and an overall general feeling of relaxed well-being and joy at being in the same experience with so many like-minded people.

In fact, not only will gas prices help accommodate such positive vibes, I predict even the "crop-dusters" will show mercy and keep their impact to a minimum. (Howz dat fer optimism?)

Frankie

Definitely shouldn't have brought York arrows up with me around 

At teh last show I discovered it actually isn't a rule to follow them (not technically anyway). It's nowhere to be found in the official show rules document; they only put a small graphic about it in the meet notice that comes in the mail and it does not say it's a rule. Rather it seems to be a mere suggestion "for your safety". I even looked on the York Fairgrounds site to make sure it wasn't a rule of the actual fairgrounds. Nada.

At teh last show attendance was actually light enough for the arrows to not be necessary. Well, they're never really necessary or obeyed in the dealer halls to begin with, but even a lot of times in the member halls if I needed to double back down an aisle for any reason it was very easy to do so. It became pretty evident that as long as traffic was light enough, no one including the hall monitors really seemed to care whether I was following arrows or not. There were no public shamings either, although one religiously devout York observer did make a point of telling me he looked up all my information and reported my arrow-disobeying to the TCA. Not sure what he was hoping to accomplish, maybe intimidating me into "stepping back in line"? Either way, I was never reprimanded (shocker).

Imaginary rules are made to be broken 

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Imaginary rules are made to be broken

I don't think it has to be an official rule in order for adults to follow the published "suggestion" from the folks sponsoring the show.

Or do we need the arrow suggestion to become an official rule with some sort of draconian consequence for a violation?

We don't need anything at all, really. The status quo is fine. Instituting more draconian nonsense would only be a step backward in the progress the TCA has been making to modernize its rules and regulations.

My point (and the reason I find the arrow discussion to be so much fun) is that it seems kind of hilarious that a lot of folks out there get so deeply offended when the arrows are not followed, and it turns out it was never a rule to begin with 

Arrows, Arrows,  we don't need no stinking ARROWS. I mean who really follows the Arrows? 

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My point (and the reason I find the arrow discussion to be so much fun) is that it seems kind of hilarious that a lot of folks out there get so deeply offended when the arrows are not followed, and it turns out it was never a rule to begin with  

So, it's fun to agitate people needlessly?

To some people I'm sure it is. For me personally it's just mildly amusing to see grown men needlessly agitating themselves over non-rules at a toy train show...